O'Brien v. Fitzhugh

The question presented on this appeal apparently should find quick answer. It is whether there was a completed contract between the parties. Was there a meeting of minds as to the subject-matter of the correspondence between the parties? The applicable legal principle is that an acceptance of an offer must be as broad as the offer, and the acceptance must not be in the nature of a counter proposition, or qualified by the addition of any condition or stipulation not expressed or implied in the offer of which the acceptor desired to take advantage. An acceptance, to be operative, must be…